The ACLU took to the airwaves this week to advance its advocacy against the implementation of Assault Intervention Devices — invisible microwave beam weapons originally developed by the military — as a way of subduing inmates at the Los Angeles County Jail by focusing a microwave beam on them to make them feel intolerable heat.

This morning, on the KPFK program "Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod," Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, said, "the fact that this weapon was never used by the military should be red flag enough for people to be angry and outraged and to contact the Board of Supervisors and say this is an experiment that shouldn't be allowed to go forward."